Submission Deadline for 5th “The Future World of Work” Research Award Approaching

The Volksbank Weinheim Stiftung (Volksbank Weinheim Foundation) and the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) are again offering two research awards this year with the aim of supporting up-and-coming researchers in the region. The prizes will be awarded to the best doctoral dissertation (EUR 3,000) and the best master’s thesis (EUR 2,000) on the topic “The Future World of Work”. Award recipients will also have the opportunity to complete a research stay at ZEW. The deadline for submissions is 31 October 2017.

Potential submissions may cover a broad range of topics, from migration and demographic changes to digital platform based working and digital training or the role played by labour market institutions. Papers must be submitted by 31 October 2017. They must have been completed at either a non-university research institution or a university located either in the Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region (Mannheim, Heidelberg, Landau) or in the surrounding area (Karlsruhe, Darmstadt). Interested young economists are invited to submit their doctoral or master’s theses to the Volksbank Weinheim Stiftung. To qualify for the research award, the submitted thesis must have been graded between 1 September 2016 and 31 August 2017. Submissions may come from the master’s student or doctoral candidate themselves, or be put forward by their supervising professor.

Please send all submissions to:

Volksbank Weinheim Stiftung

Bismarckstraße 1

69469 Weinheim